Editor's introduction

Kou, Gang Article Editor's introduction Financial Innovation Provided in Cooperation with: Springer Nature Suggested Citation: Kou, Gang (2018) : Editor's introduction, Financial Innovation, ISSN 2199-4730, Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 4, Iss. 1, pp. 1-, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-018-0101-5 This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237133 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes. You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ EDITORIAL Open Access Editor’s introduction Gang Kou Correspondence: [email protected] Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China The tenth issue of Financial Innovation (FIN), Volume 4, No. 2 (2018) presents six papers contributed by 12 authors and co-authors from seven countries and areas: Brazil, Burkina Faso, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, UK. The first paper, “Brent prices and oil stock behaviors: evidence from Nigerian listed oil stocks”, by Amarachi Uzo-Peters, Temitope Laniran and Adeola Adenikinju, investigates the impact of Brent oil price shocks on oil related stocks in Nigeria. The second paper, “Valueat-risk under ambiguity aversion”, by Rossella Agliardi, offers a new perspective to full awareness on capital requirement calculation as requested by international regulation. The third paper, “Climate change and financing adaptation by farmers in northern Nigeria”,by Terfa W. Abraham and William M. Fonta, shows that rural farmers are affected by climate change through increased temperature, prolonged dry seasons, floods, and drought, which lead to low harvest and, in turn, low income. The fourth paper, “Does financial depth impact economic growth in North Cyprus?”, by Turgut Türsoy and Faisal Faisal, shows that economic growth can be improved by enhancing the deposit rates in the financial system.The fifth paper, “Impact of global financial crunch on financially innovative microfinance institutions in South Asia”, by Faisal Mustafa, Ambreen Khursheed and Maham Fatima, evaluates theroleofacountry’s political practices in moderating the impact of global financial crunch on microfinance performance. The sixth paper, “Is money going digital? An alternative perspective on the current hype”, by Daniel Gersten Reiss, proposes that the statuses of electronic money (e-money) and banknotes have switched in the view of monetary authorities. Publisher’s Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Received: 16 July 2018 Accepted: 30 July 2018 Financia l Innovation © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Kou Financial Innovation (2018) 4:17 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-018-0101-5